*****Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Announcement Day***** (as a sidenote, Brenda Novak –Award winning Best Seller– just announced a contest where she was giving the winner 7 nights paid at a posh resort. I thought to myself, why didn’t I think of that? huh.) Back to business… Trumpet Fanfare, then slow drumroll… There is a […]

Golden Crown Literary Society 9th Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas 2013 YES. It really has taken a week to recover my empty tank and I still needed a nap. 230+ women celebrating books AND chocolate chip cookies!! What’s not to love? It’s been almost a year since I join the amazing team at Bedazzled Ink. What […]

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Sim’s new book You’ve Got a Book In You, and just read the chapter on character names. By the by, if you’ve written a book, thought about it, started one, or simply aspired to see your name on a cover, this is a terrific, common-sense, and freeing book to guide you. […]

Jeffe Kennedy (Lovely LERA lady in large hat) is one of my LERA sisters, an excellent writer, and a pretty savvy business woman. She’s also a way better blogger! Her recent post gut-punched me, necessitating a re-read. The denouement revealed part of a stealth software program that has– surprisingly– been running in the background of my Curious-Mind. […]

I’m still a little flush with the excitement of finishing the first draft of “Balefire” and sending back the signed contract for it. This story derived as they often do from the ‘shotgun’. I entered Nanowrimo last year for the eighth year and won, as I have every year except 2005…when I did the whole thing […]

Okay, the new promo piece is large, but still quite beauteous. My thanks to the artistry of the Tree house Studio for a sensational new promo card. And now… Why, you ask, the big promo? Because, your creative-type friends have surprises on the horizon. What happens when you combine your favorite authors, great fiction, and […]

All right I know, 750 words will not break records in the Daily Word Count Books. It’s okay. Everything is OK and this is why: I’m not going to apologize for anything. I have somehow lost my ritual/habit routine for writing… And for many other things, like vacuuming. But you know what? It doesn’t matter. […]

I’ve returned from my whirlwind trip to Austin for the Lone Star Book Festival. Everything went smoothly and I had a chance to visit with friends old and new. There were 20+ authors from across the country and from several different publishers. It was great to put faces with the names that have become familiar. […]

okay, you’re right. Shoddy practices do not a blog make. BUT……. I promise to make up for it with ribald stories from the front lines in Austin. Lone Star Lesfic Book Festival begins in approximately 24 hours. And I will be there , books in hand, pen at the ready! If, I can […]